Man With Night Sweats: Poems (FSG Classics) - Softcover

Gunn, Thom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374530688 ISBN 13: 9780374530686

Publisher: Fsg Adult, 2007

Synopsis

"The Man with Night Sweats "is a haunting depiction of a world ravaged by illness that is part elegy for those who have been lost and part evocation of the changes that await those who survive. It is also one of the few works of literature that have fully met both the aesthetic and the moral challenges that the AIDS epidemic poses. The nobility and sobriety of Thom Gunn's forms enhance and underscore the gravity and pathos of his subjects. The results have the cathartic and healing power of great art.

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Review:

"Perhaps his most wary, moving, personal book to date. It is a forceful reminder that Gunn . . . is one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century . . . He writes of and from the modern climate, as if wholly at home here; these new poems have a claim to be some of the most authentic occasional poems of our time. - Hugh Haughton, The Times Literary Supplement

Book Description:

The Man with Night Sweats by Thom Gunn displays Gunn's unparalleled ability to move between classical forms and looser, more colloquial measures - while always remaining a deeply moving and affecting poet.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fsg Adult
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0374530688
• ISBN 13: 9780374530686
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108